Ind vs aus test

Pant, who is recovering from injuries suffered in a car crash last December, would have fancied another go at the Aussies. So can the collective of Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, KS Bharat and Shardul Thakur - the remainder of India's batting strength - work to blunt the Australia bowling attack and conquer their world-record target on the fifty day to win the World Test Championship final? The India-Australia rivalry is now ranked alongside the Ashes as one of the best contests in modern Test cricket. In the last decade there have been some great Tests played by both teams in Australia and India. Before Gabba 2021, India won in Melbourne to draw level and then escaped with a heart-stopping draw in Sydney. Each of those Tests entered the fifth day. Kohli has enjoyed batting on the fifth day: since 2014, in nine innings he has made 584 run at an average of 97.33. Kohli has three centuries, too, alongside three fifties, but has never been on the winning side as India have lost three and secured six draws. Rahane's batting numbers on the fifth day, though, are weak: in 13 innings, he has scored 220 runs without a single half-century. However, it is because of Jadeja, too, got off to a good start with the bat on Friday and was two short of a half-century before he was sucked in to make a mistake by Nathan Lyon. Shami said: "280 runs, if you bat well, is not a big score. We should bat normally, focus on playing ball by ball, don't look too far. Your chances of su...